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...corrupt, Jack Grubman says; he's just a liar and a braggart. A former star analyst of telecom companies for the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, Grubman says that when he upgraded his investment opinion of AT&T in November 1999--after years of dissing the stock--it had nothing to do with winning investment-banking fees for Salomon, helping his boss Sanford Weill survive a power struggle or getting the Grubman twins into an exclusive nursery school. A string of emails in which he raised all these issues--and which were obtained by reporters last week--are "baseless...
...once, you can believe a beleaguered distributor. The affair between Padre Amaro and Amelia ends in trag-edy. But before that occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...
Earlier research had shown that some monks were directly involved in corrupt practices like owning brothels or gambling parlors. From interviews with academics, local officials and international volunteers, Prasse-Freeman got a sense of how enormously sad the situation in Thailand has become...
...must, without delay, launch long-term preventive actions while continuing to fight pockets of terrorism wherever they exist. Terrorism stems from ignorance, and the best way to eradicate it is through education and economic viability. We must help the people of the Third World stand on their own. Corrupt Third World rulers should be arrested and tried as international criminals. Let us give new meaning to the concept of pre-emptive strikes. SIDDIQUE MALIK Louisville...
Mugabe abandoned the best interests of Zimbabwe’s people long ago. He is a dictator doing all he can to hold onto power. That land reform is an entirely legitimate issue should not cloud our condemnation of the man or of his corrupt, harmful policies and abuses of democracy...